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INDIAN RECORD.Glt; H. MILLER W. L. SQOJER,. - ; EDITORS. uOFFICE; MUSKOGEE, IN D. „TER.: REV. J. J. READ, \ ; :CORRBSPON D1NO ElDJTOH.tWRpn iiUlt;• kH1 [ ‘** ■ • amount called fpr and needed furthe /prosecution of it* work of the• . * ’ •curr^W yoHfv • The consolidation ofoiir MiHHicJiiariv MagazineH hy a^t bf he last General Assembly madl ne-essiuy.ibe iiiHtithtjon, of the Honiv,_ • 1 . A ‘*i .'“t.U * ^ •Mission Mohthlif by the . Wornitn * ha cottage to accommodate twentyChoctaw girls could be fully.• occupied without delay, and that kcarchlv, a passes 'Without application^Help# made4.0 kirn Jor rfdmission ‘ to\ '* *r \ . ' ’ X Vthe/ mdiodl, all of which he is com/-• 1 *». . . .1 • • 1( , . I t .Committee, that its work tnay huye ofroypu.pel ledger inept with refusal for Want* f ‘ ■. , * .*■ - • ■*/ I V * * *• i-' ,* v . t* * - ..ifoil and at I cq uate prese n ta 11 oh bejdre • In. reply £ tho^, aeHCfrtinn, oftenthe ohurehert. ; Every fef^ixing ld^AlcAteHter,' •• . ■ • »r. % • • . i :po|mlatioii * in I itrgely trap-eaii!m Hiii«1; :tli c» t'Af,fnyestig^liioii ■ is clt;)iiHtiuU4y jiierejisiujg.I-V they were iidt perm it ted by the U.S. » ddiers even to cultivate then* smallfields, so'that thriy. ^compelled •’ , \ ' ! -• ......by force to auanddn their farms, andwith them evpu the little they hAdlearned of indiiafcribus habits. Stiehwas their condition when in 1842 they ■Arrived at Kurt Gibson in,tile' #i *•.•» * ■Chei*dke6 Nationy .where they were brought':v^ captives of war, weddedto the ' d{irkest lieath^nisiri. wh iplith«r-•Pi^sltyter ajjd ot t x; ell 1 I of rvooi lt;■ tun I, inforiiiiition betwoUii luiil the'eoming; :iiiiiicrs are ltiosilywould aid, them by their eordiul huj- ;i»ort, especially by the . way oLleJ ^ *xud siipiiOrlerH.of o.irl men omunilieH, the eoinj.rny giyiftgv bnriiig shbscriberH: In so mo in inis^ion scliool Work in tlib syntd bfu |irefci^uecvtlt;) them, and of (lie Ontii’eW V F W m m M “ w FT _7» m * F —- ■ V — ■ . . •^hoea ouTit tojet?la,tj^ns, *h%ty;beeii [tlie Invljaji 'Ieri iufy. uiet, i nJuany theyJmvb not, '■ / f ::. r We are deVptiif^; rtiuch; Hpace to hiatorio jiCoouuts ;bi ihh laying of tin*V fo(11fi)ati«u 1:ifir _c 11uilt;^Iv v.ti:k inimmiM ,kUR Mew ESTER SCHOOL,«. r-i. • - rAfi-OTlid (50ud i tnjiVs /at Ale Aieste r; arei1 'y • * / * .- . •lireferenctl to thutn and ofi (lie ehti|*e foiliydd herd fi ye:/ yeiirs,: njapyiro tli e ertj^Hest • oi e n i iig, bf- tbo’orce, civer^:v-tjiree^-flt;h,irtbs ni’e sucih.¥' ' | ‘ # ’ -II i ’ ■ ' ' ^ | ' •' J — •*'* ^ 1 . J . *Lt also aj|earH^that a n'iajtujty hay^'a v» »» m.m \ i * «r v • '' •- «* _ »w - - ' l \ f ’ » Bf i v • ■ i ' t v a * v m ■ » w ^ • .. I -‘ .'V-i7* • • -tlieJTtiri’itpry, u»d anyinff tlic eb|de ,,ofuiiar. -and prcHeiit a jdinHe quite '«»«»• Thoudneijl! schools arc sdjv'• r . 4t • ' |th^y bad learn 1;' and - received/ foreeiitiirief) fiJ(»iri heir anc stors; to--. •, - , Ja '* • y.‘‘ r ;: '. .^11 'I ' J* . . .1____-a‘\* _ *' - . 4 • i ■*■ L . . tbdly/void ;»f iiidustrioririJiablts; pooi and wVetpHed in JUp fextfcmev lie-aides they had : Icfa-rn^d: dishonestyf;oppression, drunkeniiesa and pirofaii;i ty froiri;ihei i];nhigh\ycm the %bke^eating the youth, -to/the results of which the Five Civilized tribes owe(joining the town^10 are about1 tour miles east of |ustertwas organized about two yearsi - ■ ■tlijm tthe station apd near together, a^o. t During the first year tour,of' ... » * : ' *1... ... ... I. * -i .• t k .1 1 'l S .presentjiiid tlie • rapidly growing village-|it«\ine'mberH were killed by a.mine-w- |r« • w . • • ..... I . “ * , W ' 'I •-* V-f f ^ 'X ; reducational work has provoked eojm- around there is.^ known -5 Krehs: explosion, two were sent back across-I ■ I » ■ • ■ . 1pelition, and throughMt» bifluejmie, Kffitliin a radius of less, than one-1t,Ui hCa- «• that tfhen Bro._ Seftouas well as Irom im-mediate reaulta, |rj;|f Jnj|0 at Krebs we lined scores of loeated there one year ago itAvas an the standard ol moral and social , , , . •*. , f - .intelligence has 'been measurably 1H,W bouses built upon the leased jmcaieddor organization ol sevenraised. ' ilauds of the coal ,oojnpany, ; these JnbinDerrtv A_.dozen sermons at u'reg-■ li.ffiait'ifi) unhesitatingly state, with houses being owned .by the miners M*ar iuLervuls'- ecvristiUiten about thedue brotherly deference to other do- amj ot|j0r mine employees who occu- ,,iea^u^ of .cafe that our PresbyterynhiiiiiiiLhniiM t.linl. mi ffhiifiUi iu w f I. .......... .nominations, that no church is held .in higher esteem than ours among. I . . • , . . . ..1 i . ° p .. t - 1 There is, a ^Qatholie church plT^d a mimster the church.has, duringhas bestlwC*fT:upon McAlester. With-themasH of the ^mliun people of the . — - *Fiye Nations. It-was the Master's recent construction, a building ad- last^-yuar, received nine (consecrated ones who laid thedoun- joining^the elmrclj^ neariiigcoiiipletioii fesaipn and two by letter, Jon con-md the# t t VI*V VIIUI uu MVIM lllg utvrtl J- | 4 ----. 7 9 rdftUons Upon wliieli we are building L() ^ t|,u festers as aJatteiidance .011 public soryieediaH in-to-day* and the growth ot this rres- , .. ' , 1 • , 11 rn,bytery of the Indian Territory -from boar. 1 mg department tor live school «x 01 seven .told.. Hu-mostits organization, 06tobor 31st; 1^83,v they are now conducting in the .pronounced feature of growth is the' . t ' •' r. % i • • . I t. 1 - i ‘ l. I ‘ i* ' ' V .i.•gamzation to the present Jime has been the /reaping of their sowing. /When organized it (idiisisted-of* 12 ininisters, 10 churches and 280* members, tand■ ‘'4 4 , t *4 . 'now by order of the Synod of Kinisas the next meeting wiU be in threePresbyteries, to-w/it: Presbytery ofthe Cherokee Nation, Pfesbytirry of Muscogee and Presbytery of Clioc-tuw, the three having a total of-26ministers^ forty-three churches and a membership exceeding 1,800.ciiurcli, but -for wluch^a ’ building ^jioul, which Juis far surpassed;tlm wiJt~soon be .erected, the foundation most sanguine expectations of . itsbeing already laid. ' There are about supporters and friends. .' — -— , * ,forty pupils in attendance here.Other towns along the line of the. About, mid wav between the two railroad iii the tlboetuw Nat,ion will pits',, is the miners’ school building,pP- »»atei®lly ififeeUTd'diy the' new■ - ’* 4 * V *' » . ( 1 • 1 • I 1 • * •*'!-' ■ Ill* I. • lt;A a . ■ . * • - « • . . II* m-k Ik.iLI.., J. . . 1 I __- . - . I - . v A . I I -1in wliieli Rif^/Stewart apd lasowife buildjng oil eltjier side parallel|\vith*the Misso.uri Pacific, but McAl-continuance and prospeidtyEjupils. Near this school is Mr. .jJ. McAlesteFs new store^ which with I vests, beyond competition, iii itsWe may. w.e 1.1 i ma^ine Jliai a jieopie1iii. $ he 11 a: athic; Wo u 1J be very sl 6 vv ili reeeiying,; learning and; pracUc-ing tjie principleH pf the Their recent* bloody conflict with andugation by the whites doubtlesstended .ito prejudice- tlmlr ‘ lnuuls. against receiving the Gospel at trheir-l /j • • ' •- . •••’/ .b Vhands. * ■ • 5• ~ i 1 -As haa been stated, after rein lining a short tiine through the cdurte-s V o f t I \ e Che rokees i n th e i r eo u nf r y the fSemiifbles werfl permitted to livq ■1 ‘V j. .1 ^ ^in a jiart of the Creek country lying between the .Cauadijin ,atvd North Fork Rivers. Here they made their homes and lived iilti.1 the year 1859,when they began to move to theirnew reservation fifty miles west jybiclv had bceii assjgned ’ them by the U. S. Government. So far as we know no effort was hi ado to ftiliaHt-spoke fully two In-ms to a most at-, ten live audiejiice,, telling ^pme verv iliUre ting things/about his own fvisrbury and;i»onversibn V *?r^ftrtlror• 0 , V' . .. • . ■ t ’■ignorahde and/ (lestituiion*.. ofttbe iSeminoles and of his present/ prepar* . - t . *atious UV go to preach ito them1. .Everybody thought him a fvonderful Indian ahd, possesHipg^ a ibdkt pro-;1 i fie ilfiaghiMion,; he succie^lftt * Iu tel I i ug til dries that grc»iu ly :a ihazi?d^ and iii teres ted his hea i ers / Tli e ne.V t tithe I saVr ldih Was iii ;1845,«when 1“ ;V' . '• *. V * j’' * // ■ •was a studeiif at J6lfei^oji Otjflege.at (JannonHbi rgj, Fa. '' Iljs : H(ti;a'pug tliero produced thevsilwe effect: 011';* # . •* ' \ . • .«*»“. iL * '• ... s 7professors, students ftiid citizens,, and..Jiidiun Presbytery met anSundy Cruek station, of Wapauuklm Church/ Chickasaw.Naiibn,• September, 10* f , /All the. ministers—nine, with » majoriiy of n$itivqs-^and six -eld^swejrv ; |)Wsent*c»bi)iing mostly..,dr,In ,i sebaelt rfnmFtfi^ir distil 111, 1 i,ones,v:,:rH«y-!^4W^ W * 1 IV.J fit '-III' I: bjooi iCiiii^asaw^.aiid forV Sevt ral moiin ,goVerijpjr/ vv'as e!ected ialt;n 1 era^t nr;;. - Hpy. i' r t/' J urb(*U»yed; bnither^AIlpip Wright (lathV • ,ii *4y.i/liberal cpntributrohs : wefp;p(aeed i nititf lVtinila/.fd.r'Jthe poor SeihinoIoH. Previoij to this bo had visiteif -afidspent, onl; year with his Iril and, badjrethrned east:I#' s^iicil aid for, ■ - — -i |On them While living in the Cherokee. country, nor after they movedTtfto the Creek country until 1846,, • ^ *••- .- •«. • y- J _____ ^ rv+J/J- *wheinri^ev: R. M/ Eduglindge andIds .interpreter,* David Wlnsjety, bj instructions from; the Board of Foreign Missions visited and held an interview with the chiefs; no mission was begun among them until* J4-U p to th a tr tiine“theycoi) ti nued in total; darkness; practicing their heatlfenisli rites, living in poverty, anil drunkenness was ahnostTuniversal. Fort Smith, Arkansas,; - Was theiiL^grcat whiskey depot and parties were constantly engaged in transporting it into the Seminqle country, some packed it in smallthe* destitute. In JJie autumn of 1845 lie started west again with the purpose, Of returning with what aid he had coilected/to lira tribe. . :i ^ r «r i.. In 8e|)temher, 1845, through the recoiiiiiiendation of their pastor, Mr.d* * - t * •‘ Mrs. Li 1 leyw were appointed by the Presbyterian;; Board of Foreign Mission* tp. the Creek Mission at Kowetah to assist Rev. R. M. Lougfi, idgej then in charge^ temporarily,but- to go ultimately tfC the Semi-notes. Late in November they started with, their family of J’onr little* ^ **» F * * * * • * . . 1 ’children for the Indian. lerritory. They met Bemo in Ciiieinnafi; Ol*io, hut as travelingsfro in there westwardcould be done'bniy‘fin Hteainbojits, and the Ohio fiver being closed /with rce, they were detained in Cincinnati11 i ree weeks*. : - ......\(lt;iT.lA WIDE FIELD.KEY. J. J. HEAD.j r»* 1 .*»* « *rA wide dpor and effectual hasbeen- lately ^opened toJ the - Ch u f lt;di of Glirist in this Tefnjtdryv Nlt; Vne but those actualjy dii the1 field ami engaged in.the work can fully estimate its extent and importance. KblwitlV-’ . . lt;- A*standing all the progress, in many respects . i omarkabIe progress, that has been made in the extension, of Christ’s Kingdom, within the^'iVasi. few years, there still lies out. around-IC dyceai?ie(l)V was jjccei yed f nmf rhe Prt^byfei^’, lt;f:/t iiVliuu ;*V* y, iiii/-11 VvM n/withi^ifpri)fefp Alt;si»/nbiy. For a t,iuthat liVs.s ;lt;»-iis was. heavily111». , w w * . I i F , .*d^* wlm^p/ear^bi* luid. ing i.Kp' \hi*o 1 1 /^e11iiij^1-5;; iii ;Nbw .York uity • TJiis accession ,to our: imnisteriaL tpgetiidr /with an r/:lt;AXC(*1 lent ■ yoUiig^l bvothlt;,r lately piv -« daihedv nmair somivwhat/ the lost5• , i i ...... lt;, •. s * t •susiaitied last Apri 1 byihe fraiinfer o t several »f uurna ti ve n \ ifii KMsandj I ' \ * * • \ | •• J ' • . I * • •/. V . F 'ch iirches u) uin/ si^t er Palt;sbfy tci y /of : ?L«liipi Tori iii/conueetiph/Witli' fV K .V:.’aT /.V'^'1. h ti me-;.]' /•titthe. great Jvo.d of theJiarve.vt* has 'yX* ’ ‘ ’»'• ^ ^ ^ r ■been gracioii- to us. . r '•/A. .t ' , *•Dirfing the pasj. year we had/JhsV ; one by death (Brother AlleiCWiJ^ht) and four by dismission to the Pres-1bytery of Indian Territory ; but this hiss is partly tuade up by. the.ordi-uatidh of two, and flu1 access i/0) 0f j-one;.maki ng a net loss of onl y two.But a largi*^/pprtipn.ol’piirtcdTitOry as a Presbytery has been cut off, as- : it was out-of,our.power to supply so* extensive a fegioii with our limited force, and especially since a! sister Presbytery ottered . to tak(i thechurches and prbvide fof them.mioPOSKb TUANSEER OF THE MISSION*jWith reference to the proposed* transfer of this Indian mission to the Cominittee of Home Missiojia, the following action was taken, viz.: J‘/After mjiture deliberation, ix^vasl resolved unanimously that this Pres- ; bytery earnestly ,request that, tjjq1 proposed transfer of Indian nbssioirs from the care aud juppoiTof the Ex-|ecut.ive Oommittee^of Foreig \ Missions to that of the Executive Corn-mi ttee/ of Tfoine Missions be not made, as it is the judginent lt;)f this /Presbytery that such a transfer would be sefhiusly detrimental to the work, and, further, because, instead of be ing among an English speaking people (as SUplmsed ), the wbrk rPres) ytery lias alwaysjheen aiid stfiT * is . exr^ natives oX, Tthis country—and they are A people/ of a hinguage and nationality entire^ ® ly different from anyother portion ^ United States, u / ^- Tin* meeting was^in a communityof Chickasjivy' Indians, most ly full-bloods. -The. people that jcatuV .to’'•v
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